I feel that this lack of support is basically because there are so few wives who are an integral part of their husband's practice, and that our colleagues have not known the resentment building up over the years endured by doctors whose wives are employed while they wait patiently for recognition. My wife, a state-registered nurse, has been associated with this practice over 25 years, the last ...

PURPOSE State variation in inclusion of ancillary services in daily Medicaid nursing home reimbursement rates, versus covering ancillary costs outside of such rates, makes rate comparisons difficult. The purpose of this study is to adjust for inclusion of ancillaries when comparing Medicaid rates across states. DESIGN AND METHODS Data for 1987-1998 were drawn from a national survey of Medicai...

Treatment of intracranial aneurysms involves many factors: patient preference and demographics; aneurysm size, site, geometry, access, and intrinsics; practitioner experience and availability; facility; technology; and ancillaries. Volume counts, teamwork enhancement, and management should be individualized.

Sufficiency has long been regarded as the primary reduction procedure to simplify a statistical model, and the assessment of the procedure involves an implicit global repeated sampling principle. By contrast, conditional procedures are almost as old and yet appear only occasionally in the central statistical literature. Recent likelihood theory examines the form of a general large sample statis...

SUMMARY For a variable and parameter of the same dimension, the tangent exponential model (Fraser, 1988) approximates an asymptotic model to third order in a rst derivative neighbourhood of the data point and to second order otherwise. For the more usual case of a variable of larger dimension than the parameter, we obtain a unique expression for the third order ancillary distribution as project...

A new series of neutral, thiocyanate-free Ru(II) sensitizers (TFRS-1-3), which are assembled using both 4,4'-carboxy-2,2'-bypyridine and 2-pyridyl pyrazolate ancillaries, exhibit a light-harvesting capability up to 700 nm and superior DSSC performance in conversion efficiency (eta = 9.54% for TFRS-2).